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J. S. KELLY.

Washing Machine.

No. 82,722. Patented Oct. 6, 1868.

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JOHN STAFFORD KELLY, OF NEW- YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 82,722, dated October 6, 1868.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE,

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOHN STAFFORD KELLY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Washing-Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification,- in which Figure 1 represents a central cross-section of my improved washing-machine.

Figure 2 is a detail section of one of the floating washers.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to provide a. simple and effective washing-machine.

It consists of an oscillating drum or barrel, provided with a lever-handle, or othenconvenient means of actuating it, and also a number of floating rubbers, composed of a canvas sleeve, containing a number of wooden balls, arranged in a row, together with other devices contributing to the practical operation of the machine, as is hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, A. is a drum or barrel, having a hatch-opening, B, with a suitable cover fitting the same.

The barrelis supported by means of trunnions, or which have bearings in any suitable frame, C C C, Ste.

D is a rectangular frame, enclosing the barrel, the end pieces of which are aifixed to the ends of the barrel, the said end pieces being let into the chimes of the barrel, to obtain a more firm attachment to the same.

The tr unnions may be of metal or wood, and are aflixecl to the heads of the barrel, and pass through the end pieces of the frame D. Y

E is the lever for oscillating the barrel, and is affixed to one of the side pieces D of the frame.

In combination with the oscillating barrel, I employ a number of floating rubbers, one of which is shown in section of fig. 2.

They consist of a number of wooden or other buoyant balls, at, contained in a canvas sleeve or case, b, of pliable web or fabric, and arranged in a row by means of a string or cord, 01, or the close-fitting character of the sleeve. v I

In operation, layers of clothes or other fabric to be washed are placed in the barrel, alternated with a layer of the floating rubbers, as shown in fig. 1, the clothes being represented in red color.

' The barrel is supplied with soap and water, or suds, in the usual manner, and oscillated.

It is best, in practice-,to place the floating rubbers crosswise to the axis of the barrel, to insure the best action upon the clothes. I I

The fluctuation of the water and the clothes and floating rubbers immersed therein is found highly efiective to the washing process, it being nearly like the hand-rubbing process, and, while it conduces to a thorough and rapid cleansing of the clothes, will not, in the remotest degree, injure the most delicate fabrics, which latter objection obtains in most if not all the washing-machines heretofore in use;

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 7 I The combination, in a washing-machine, of an oscillatingdrum, barrel, or box, A, with a number of floating rubbers, composed of pliant sleeves, containing buoyant balls, arranged in a row, all substantiallyas shownand described, and for the purpose set forth.

The above specification of my invention signed by me, this 2d day of July, 1868.

JOHN S. KELLY.

Witnesses:

FRANK BLOGKLEY, ALEX. F, ROBERTS. 

